I can't read about it, hear it or see it.
It doesn't surprise me that President Obama, who did not care about the Syrian refugees enough to prevent them from being refugees, now has something to say when there are American protesters in the streets. That man is a politician through and through.
He's not the President anymore. Mrs. Clinton is also not the President. I think a significant reason for that is that people hated the civilian death toll during the Obama administration and they had a visceral response to someone who said he would help the world to be safer.
How is what has happened over the past 8 years better than the American military being sent to the Middle East to help people sort out their squabbles, so that peaceful people from those places don't have to flee their home countries? At least people who are part of the military are prepared for people who want to kill them.
As far as Afghanistan is concerned, I made an incredible discovery a few years ago, which isn't that incredible because it's there on the Internet for anyone to read, that Afghanistan is the heroin capital of the world. If it's been a quagmire for decades, it seems to me that's probably because many people were paid to allow it to continue to be a quagmire, because it's much less effort to be a crime capital when you are not a functional democracy. Anyone who knows better than I do should correct me about that. It's not as if the world's opioid crisis is decreasing, is it?
Copyright L. Kochman, January 30, 2017 @ 9:26 p.m.
